FARM HOMES in the NEW SOUTH 



(OI'VRK.HT 1912 

By 
K. A. CiMMiNGS li; Co. 



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FARM HOMES in the NEW SOUTH 



AN ATTEMPT TO TRUTHFULLY REPRESENT SOME OF 
THE AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES AND HOME ADVAN 
TAGES OF THE COUNTRY ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI 
CENTRAL RAILROAD IN THE VICINITY OF HATTIES 
BURG, MISS., THE METROPOLIS OF SOUTHERN MISSIS 
SIPPI SEVENTY MILES FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO 

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Compiled />y 

Edward S. Judd anJ Wilms S. Thompson 

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E. A. CuMMiNGs & Company 

(ESIAIILISHHII 18691 



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EDMUND A. CUMMINCS 
CHARLES O. GOSS 
EDWARD S. JUDD 
ROBERT C. GIVINS 



40 N. DEARBORN STREET, CHICAGO. ILL. 



Price 25 Cents 



W. L. Twining 

Manager Farm Depurlmint 



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Foreword 



Who Should Buy Farm Land 

There are many tillers of the soil nov\- working for others 
or farming as tenants, and many farm owners \^•ho wish to 
/'ctter thiir prosfcrts by moving to other places. There are 
men living in the cities who grew up on farms and now realize 
that the independent life of the farm is better than the city for 
themselves and their families. There are many others who are 
"land hungr\" and inquiring as to where the best opportunities 
for settlement and investment can be found. Having in mind 
the desires of all these people, we started out to find land ivhich 
ice could conscientiously reconrnend, and our experts, «ho are 
practical farmers, made examinations of land in many localities. 

Why Southern Land Selected 

The lands of the Canadian Northwest were left out of con- 
sideration on account of their location in a cold climate with 
short growing season, little opportunity for diversification of 
crops and in a countr\ not under the flag of the United States. 

Personal examination has been made of lands under sev- 
eral United States and private irrigation projects in the West 



and Northwest. \Miile wonders are being accomplished in 
making the wilderness blossom as the rose where water is car- 
ried to the dry land, yet the cost of such land and water rights, 
ranging from $40 to $300 per acre, with uncertainty in many 
cases as to sufficiency of the water supply and an absolute cer- 
tainty of a perpetual maintenance tax and occasional charges 
for repairs and betterments, led us to conclude that such land 
is not a desirable purchase for most people seeking farm homes. 
The orchard lands of the Pacific Coast are attractive in 
some respects, but prices are exceedingly high. It takes a num- 
ber of expensive years to develop an orchard, over-production 
of fruit is among the possibilities, and the long freight or ex- 
press haul to the consumer absorbs a considerable part of the 
profit. 

We sent a representative to the Southwest and found that 
liberal advertisement of that region in the last ten ^ears had 
attracted so many people that nearly all of the desirable land 

had been taken up and prices of what was left for late comers 

$iO to $100 per acre— are high. 

Land in the Central West has been bringing as much as 



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$200 and more per acre for some exceptionally choice farms, 
with an average of from $75 to $100 per acre and upward. 

Land all over the countrj' is hound to increase in price with 
increase of population, but conditions vary in different regions, 
and we believe that the man making a new home or moving his 
family to find a better home, should compare land in different 
parts of the country. That is what our experienced farmers 
who select and handle our farm lands have tried to do for you. 

Points Considered 

In making our selection, we have made carc/ul examination 
of the following matters : 

1st. Location as to HEALTH. 

2nd. Location as to climate, including temperature. 

DRINKING water SUPPLY and COMFORT IN LIVING. 



3rd. Location as to soil pRODucTn'ENESs. including rain- 
fall, LENGTH OF GROWING SEASON and VARIETY OF PRODUCTS. 

4th. Location as to market for farm products. 

5th. Actual value taking into account earning ca- 
pacity of developed farms and in comparison with other lands 
nearby and similarly situated. 

Conclusion 

We are FIRMLY convinced, after personal examination 
at every season of the jear, study of reports of soil experts and 
conversation with farmers in the vicinity, that THE lands de- 
scribed in this pamphlet meet all the requirements for 
AN ideal home investment. We vouch unreservedly for the 
truthfulness of the facts herein stated, with a reputa- 
tion established by over forty years of successful and conserva- 
tive real estate business in the second cit\' of the United States. 



E. A. Cummings & Company 



40 North De:irborn Street 



Chicago, 111. 



Referencf.s : 

Merchants Loan and Trust Company Bank. Chicago, 111. 
Chicago Title and Trnst Company, Chicago, 111. 
Hattiesburg Trust and Banking Company. Hattiesburg, Miss. 
Your own banker. 



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Snap Bcarr;. Planted nnc hu?hel "^nap beans and shipped ?4*^ hampers of 7;^ bushels each to Pittsburgh nettina $ I 00 a hamper Nor ice pecan 

trees breaking with heavy crop. Photograph made November 13. IPIZ 



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South Mississippi and How It Looks 



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SOME of those who will read this have never 
been in South Mississippi, and we wish to de- 
scribe the country so that it will look as ex- 
pected when visited. The map of the State shows 
the counties of Forrest, Lamar, Covington and Jef- 
ferson Davis, located an a\erage of about 75 miles 
from the Gulf of Mexico, and having the cities of 
Hattiesburg, Purvis, Collins and Prentiss as their 
county seats. Jackson, the capital of the State, New 
Orleans and Mobile are within a radius of about 
100 miles. Of the cities in the counties mentioned, 
Hattiesburg is the most important, with a popu- 
lation of 12,000 people, being the fourth in size of 
the entire State; having railroads, including the 
Mississippi Central, the Gulf and Ship Island, the 
New Orleans and Northeastern (Queen and Cres- 
cent Route) and the New Orleans. Mobile and 
Chicago, radiating in six different directions, im- 
portant lumber mills of the J. |. Newman Lumber 



Company, large canning plant for handling farm 
products, the ALssissippi Woman's College, the 
State Normal College, and all the educational and 
other advantages of a prosperous and growing citv. 

Pleasant and Healthful Location 

As the visitor views the country for the first 
time, he will be impressed with the generally roll- 
ing character of the land, lying at an elevation of 
from 100 to 300 feet above sea level, and affording 
pleasant and healthful locations for farm homes, 
.^lost of the country has been forested, chiefly with 
the famous long leaf yellow pine trees interspersed 
with some hardwood varieties, and saw-mills are 
still in active operation in manv places. 

Land Rolling 

The man who expects to see large tracts of open 
prairie readv for the plow will be disappointed; 



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there is the rolling prairie aspect to much of the brush, and many fields are cultivated without re- 
country and one can look over the land for long moving the stumps, the farmer burning them out 
distances, but scattered over it are the stumps left at his leisure between raising crops, 
by the lumbermen. There is little or no under- 




This photogragh was made in October, It's a farm in the midst of the land we are offering and the picture shows the rolling condition and the tail native grasses on 

which stock feeds and fattens. A dairyman who followed the business in New "\'ark State for a number of year has located at Hattiesburg 

and bought one thousand acres, establishing one of the finest dairies in the South. 



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Iowa farmers buying land in South Mississippi. Photograph taken on the Strayhan farm at Hattiesburg where the 
average corn yield per acre was sixty-one bushels and three pecks 



Productive Soil 



and sweet potatoes, while an abundant growth of 



The agricultural development will impress the sugar-cane, strawberries, orchard fruits and all 
visitor as being mostly of recent date. There are garden products indicates the crop-producing ca- 
many fields producing good crops of corn, cotton pacity of the soil. 



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New Country near Market 

The general impression made on the visitor 
will be that of a newly developing country con- 
venient to transportation and near the great mar- 
kets of the Central West— onlv 24 hours from Chi- 
cago and a much less distance'from St. Louis, Cin- 
cinnati and other important cities. Enough farm- 
ing is already being done to demonstrate the pro- 
ductiveness of the soil and to show that intelligent 
work on the part of the now rapidly increasing 
population of South Mississippi is bound to bring 
results in profitable farming and large increase o1 
land value. 

S,.„u ,,l ilu- nc» M-tlk-rs and a .emporary huilding Ix-ing u.sed while cleahriK 

the land I hese people are from Pennsylvania, and the picture 

was taken thirty days after their arrival in Mississippi 




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Home »f Mr R. K. Smith, at Hattiesburg Mr Smith is IJeneral 
Manager of the Mississippi Central Railroad 

Low Price and Easy Terms 

The counties of South Mississippi in which the 
lands represented by us are located are steadily 
increasing in agricultural importance and we know 
of no region where equally desirable land for farm 
homes can be bought at so moderate a price and 
on such easy terms of payment as the [. J. New- 
man Lumber Company lands along the" Missis- 
sippi Central Railroad and near the other rail- 
roads traversing this part of the State. 



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What Two Governors Have Written 



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ETTER from GoVKRXOk NoKL, chief execu- 
tive of the State in 191 I : 



Jackson, Miss., Xov. 9, 1911. 
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The J. J. Nkwm.w Ltmukr Co., 

HattiL'sbiirg 
Gentlemen : 

I am glad to hear that you have made arrangements to secure 
farmers to settle and cultivate lands along the Mississippi Central 
Railroad near Hattiesburg. 1 trust that the efforts of yourselves 
and associates, Messrs. E. A. Cummings & Co., will result in bring- 
ing a large number of desiralile citizens to Mississippi. 

.•\ccording to my information, the lands you are offering for 
settlement are well located, and most of it productive and well 
suited for farm homes and close to one of the best of our cities. 

In liehalf of the people of Mississippi I wish to say that the 
newcomers will be given a cordial welcome. We are glad to have 
them cast their lots among us and to assist in the development of 
the resources of our state. 

Assuring you of my interest and cordial good will in ymu' 
efforts, I remain, 

\'ery sincerely, 

!■:. I'. XoKi., 

Governor. 



Letter from GoVKRXOK Bri-A\ KR, inaugurated 
Governor in 1912: 

Jackson, .Miss., July M. 191J. 
E. .\. Cummings & Co,, 

Gentlemen: I note your effort to obtain good citizens of other 
countries to come into South Mississippi to purchase homes and 
to become citizens of our state. 1 hope very much you will succeed 
in this very commendable effort. 

It is in Mississippi where soil and climate Ijlending together 
make the most profitable country to be found in the world. When 
we consider the fact that the lands of no other country that produce 
as much, can be bought for twice the money that Mississippi lands 
are sold for, and the gradual increase of the value of our lands, 
which is going to become more and more rapid, offers an oppor- 
tunity to a man to buy a good home cheaper than he can buy it 
anywhere else, and the increase in value thereof will make him a 
wealthy man if he simply sustains himself and makes a living. 

I know of no country that presents as many splendid opportuni- 
ties for a man to make money as is now presented in this now 
imdeveloped country of ours that is so rapidly improving. 

Yours very truly, 

Eari. r.KKWF.K. 

Governor. 



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Chapter III 

General Information 

A Good Place to IJve 



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FARM home furnishing a comfortable liv- 
ing and independence f(^r the family can be 
secured by you who are reading this state- 
ment. 

We olTer you here good land, in a climate 
where you can comfortably work out of doors 
twelve months in the vear, without extremes of 
heat or cold; soil that produces marvelously and 
matures three crops a vear; at a price and on terms 
that place a good farm which will rapidly in- 
crease in value, easily within your reach. 

This land is not in a new and untried country; 
there are farmers already located, to become your 
neighbors if you will, whose prosperity in this 
community has already extended over several 
years. 

Central Location 

Besides the advantages of this home market for 
farm products, the school, church and social con- 



veniences, all needed supplies for the farm and 
home can be purchased from good local stores at 
the competitive prices prevailing in the large cities. 
There are four railroads centering at Hattiesburg 
and reaching quickly all parts of the country, mak- 
ing this a good shipping point for all farm prod- 
ucts. 

Temperature and Rainfall 

The climate makes life pleasant for twelve 
months in the year. There are not the extremes 
of heat or cold such as are common in the North, 
causing sulTering to people and failure of crops, 
and entailing much expense and uncertainty in 
taking care of stock. 

The United States Government Weather Bu- 
reau reports for the past several years give the av- 
erage temperature of the winter months about 50 
degrees, the spring months about 65, the summer 
months about 79 and the autumn about 65. Dur- 



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ing the torrid waves which cause so much suffer- 
ing in the North it is usually several degrees cooler 
in this part of Mississippi and the nights pleasant. 
Frequent cooling breezes from the Gulf of Mexico, 
70 miles away, contribute to comfort in summer. 
The average annual rainfall is from 54 to 60 
inches, well distributed through the year. With 
the temperature and rainfall so favorable there is 

F-^lowing artesian wells at Hattiesburg There are more than thirty iif these 
wells in the city. The twelve thousand people are supplied with 
water from four wells three hundred feet deep 




no time in the fifty-two weeks when some crops 
cannot be growing. 

[See appendix for official weather statistics.] 

Water Supply 

The drainage and water supply are good. 
There are numerous streams fed principally by 
living springs, with water as clear as though 
filtered. 

For domestic purposes water is found at any 
point; a bountiful supply is easily obtained by 
driven wells of twenty to forty feet. The water 
is very soft and free from any objectionable qual- 
ities. Artesian wells all over the territory range 
frQui:200 to 400 feet in depth. 

Churches and Schools 

Education and religion are essential to make 
life worth while in any community. The rural 
schools and churches of South Mississippi are year- 
ly increasing in number and quality of work. At 
Hattiesburg are found remarkably good facilities 
for higher education in High School, the Missis- 
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SchtK)l Buildmg at Sumrall 

and several business colleges. Articles by the Su- 
perintendent of Education and by the pastor ol 
one of the leading churches in Hattiesburg, will 
be found in the appendix and should be carefully 
read. 

Ideal Growing Soil 

The soil ranges from grav to red, chocolate and 
black sandy loam, named by soil experts the 
"Orangeburg sandy loam," and is underlaid with 
a clay subsoil. There is sufficient depth to the soil 
and the clay subsoil is of a quality to hold the mois- 
ture and sustain growing crops. The land is 
enough rolling to make artihcial drainage unneces- 
sary but not to cause the fertilizing qualities to be 



washed away. The land responds readily and 
abundantly to intelligent and moderate use of fer- 
tilizers, and the leguminous crops, such as peas 
and beans that grow here luxuriously are soil 
builders equal to red clover or other cover crops 
whose good qualities are so well known. 

Official Advice Gladly and Freely Given 

For the aid and instruction of farmers in Mis- 
sissippi, the United States Government has a regu- 
lar organization of good men who look after the 
individuals as well as communities. They instruct 
the farmer in the best methods of preparing his 
lands, in the best methods of planting and rotat- 
ing his crops, in the best crops to plant and how 
to take care of them, the best live stock and the 
most economic methods to secure profitable re- 
sults. The State and United States Government 
have joined in establishing experimental and prac- 
tical farms, and these have demonstrated the value 
of the lands under the right sort of farming. 

Success Assured by Intelligent Eiiort 

With all this assistance at his door, no man 
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without work. It takes as much work as farming 
anywhere, but with the possibility of two or more 
bountiful crops a year, a good market ready for 
all that is produced, the unlikelihood of a crop 
failure from any ordinary cause for which climate 
or soil can be blamed, we assert that it is already 
proven that the farmer is much more liberally re- 
warded for his work in the New South, in Mis- 
sissippi, than in other parts of the country. 

Enough Timber for Farm Purposes 

One very important feature of all this land is 
that each forty acres has sufficient small timber 
to provide fence posts and fuel supply. The lim- 
ited amount of fallen yellow pine timber which 
is on the ground makes excellent fuel, and as these 
logs do not rot for years because of the large 
amount of rosin and turpentine they contain, they 
can also be made into fence posts or cut into fuel 
supply and become at once a valuable asset to the 
farmer. Some of this fallen timber can be made 
into railroad ties which bring about thirty-five 
cents each. Because of the nearness of the lumber 
mills the construction of houses and other farm 



buildings is far more economical than in a countrv 
where lumber is scarce. 

Home Building Inexpensive 

The nature of the climate makes building in- 
expensive. It is not necessary to plaster the houses; 
in fact very few houses in the cities are ever plas- 
tered; plain sheeting is used instead and with 
papering cannot be distinguished from the plas- 

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tered houses of the North. It is not necessary to 
use heavy walls for protection from the cold, since 
it is very rare that there is any weather sufficiently 
severe to stop the growing of some crops on the 
farm. Cabbages planted in November mature in 
January for the market, showing that there is no 
very severe weather during these winter months. 
Most of the farmers build houses of from three 
to five rooms, according to the size of their fam- 
ilies, and these range in cost from $350 up. 

We will personally interest ourselves in assist- 
ing all farmers to get the best possible contract for 
the construction of all their buildings, securing 
only the most reliable contractors to do the work. 
Where the farmer chooses to buy the lumber and 
do his awn building we will help him to secure 
the best possible prices on all his lumber. 

Many Farms are Cultivated Before 
Stumps are Removed 

The removal of the stumps from this land has 
been reduced to a simple and inexpensive process. 
Besides, many farmers prefer to start farming and 
remove the stumps gradually. The best method of 




L<jt)kinB north in Main Strecl. Hauie^burg. Mississippi 

removing the stumps is by burning. They are full 
of turpentine and rosin and burn readily and are 
soon reduced to ashes. Photographs which we 
show in this booklet give an excellent idea of the 
appearance of the land after the timber is removed. 
The economical way of removing the stumps is 
to dig a short trench tapering from the surface at 
the outer edge to a depth of about two feet at the 
stump's edge on the side from which no roots pro- 
ceed. Chip a small amount of the wood from the 
side of the stump into the trench. A limb large 
enough to fill a small iUie is placed on end beside 
the stump, reaching the bottom of the trench. An- 
other limb is placed on the slanting bottom of the 
trench, touching the one that stands upright. The 
dirt is put back into the excavation and tamped suf- 
ficiently firm to remain in position when the two 
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nel that will cause a fire to burn readilv and with 
vigor.' A lighted stick dropped through the per- 
pendicular opening will ignite the chips and the 
side of the stump begins to blaze and soon it is 
reduced to ashes for at least two feet below the 
surface. 



The First Plowing 

The native grasses and the decayed vegetable 
matter that has been accumulating on this land 
for years should be turned under a short while 
before planting, and much stump burning can be 
done after the first plowing and while waiting the 




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A pear orchard at Hattiesburg. Mississippi, on the first day of February, I*-^! I , The photograph was laken by the Hattitsburg 

Commercial Club at the request of a representative of E. A. Cummings fiz Co., who had left a severe blizzard 

in the North twenty-four hours earlier. The trees were white with blossoms 



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use of the disc harrow. After stirrintf the soil in 
this manner it is in good shape for phinting. 

As to Fertili/.ation 

The use of commercial fertilizers is common 
on all these lands in conjunction with the growing 
of at least one crop a year that builds up the soil. 
The use of these commercial fertilizers in Missis- 
sippi has been reduced to a science. The Govern- 
ment report on this subject makes this comment: 

"By properly rotating the crops and giving the 
legumes a prominent place, the soil may be built 
up permanently with commercial fertilizers and 
at a profit each year of several hundred per cent. 
At McNeill farm it takes only a glance at a fer- 
tilized and an unfertilized plot of land to tell that 
fertilizers do pay handsomely, a judicious invest- 
ment of two dollars in fertilizer frequently giving 
a twenty dollar increase in corn, while fruits and 
vegetables give a much higher percentage of in- 
crease." 

McNeill farm is under control of the United 
States and State Government, and is the same 
character of land and but a short distance from the 



farms we are oftering. The farmer has the full 
benefit of all the experiments in growing of crops 
made there. While these lands give good results 
without the use of commercial fertilizers when 
built up by plowing under of cover crops and rais- 
ing of stock to enrich the soil, vet as is the case 
with most farm land in the world scientific fer- 
tilization pays. The cost of the fertilizers recom- 
mended for Mississippi soil is about $1 per hun- 
dred pounds, and $3 to $4 per acre makes ample 
supply for nearly all of the most productive crops. 

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Chapter IF 

What Crops are Raised 

First Crop on New Land 



IT APPARENTLY makes little difiference 
what crop is first planted in the new land. 
Some prefer to first plant the cow peas or vel- 
vet beans as it places the soil in such splendid 
shape for what follows and at the same time pro- 
duces a valuable crop in itself. Most frequently 
the new land has been planted to corn and pota- 
toes. The results shown in both sweet and Irish 
potatoes have been most satisfactory, the crops be- 
ing very heavy. 

Velvet Beans and Cow Peas as Crops and 

Soil Builders 

The Soya bean, velvet bean', cow pea and other 
varieties, both for grazing and hay crops, produce 
abundantly, and when harvested the vines bring 
a good price in the hay market. The fattening 
qualities of these crops are excellent. The velvet 



bean, according to the careful Government experi- 
ments and investigations, yields an average of 
twenty bushels to the acre and sells for never less 
than $3.50 and as high as $6 a bushel. By turning 
the cattle and hogs on the field to eat the vines and 
plowing under what remains in preparing for a 
succeeding crop, their addition to the soil is far 
more valuable and will add more to the crop than 
an extravagant quantity of other fertilizers. A 
crop of these velvet beans, or of any one of the 
many varieties of cow peas, which produces about 
the same value in peas and hav worth $16 to $1S 
a ton, should be one of the three crops raised each 
year on a cultivated farm. 

Corn 

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Corn and VelveL Beans. Ctirn yields a heavy crop and velvet heans provide 
finest forage for cattle and hogs. The Federal government says one 
crop of these beans is worth $48 an acre as a soil fertilizer 

value of farm lands. The corn crop of Mississippi 
was estimated at sixty million bushels in 1910 and 
seventy-five million bushels in 1911 with steadv 
annual increase expected. Crops of sixty bushels 
to eighty bushels per acre are frequently grown in 



our Hattiesburg district and the average crop on 
properly prepared and cultivated soil is about the 
same as that of Illinois or Indiana. 

The United States Government has taken much 
interest in the corn crop in Mississippi because of 
the excellent showing. Under this supervision the 
farmers' boys have been encouraged to compete 
for annual prizes as members of com rliihs. In 
1910 the prize went to a boy in a county traversed 
by the Mississippi Central Railroad, west from 
Hattiesburg. His crop yielded 227j/2 bushels to 
the acre. In 1911 the same sort of land we are 
offering in the same locality yielded 226 bushels 
to the acre and the cost of production was fourteen 
cents a bushel. The boy who raised this record- 
breaking crop and won the first prize in the Na- 
tional Boys' Corn Club contest in 1911 was Bennie 
A. Beeson of Monticello, Miss. 

Report of Eastin C. Jones on his corn crop 
raised on similar land near Jackson, Miss. 

Dear Sirs: Jackson, Miss., Nov. 16, 1911. 

Replying to your esteemed favor of the 14th inst., beg to say 
that the yields of niy corn are as follows : 

Jones' Prolific, 151 hushels per acre. 

Jones' INIaninioth, 125 luishels per acre. 

Jones' Cross-bred, 140 bushels per acre. 

With best wishes, I am, Very truly yours, 

Eastin C. Jones. 



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standing in the rear. These pats, followed by corn and a late crop of Irish or sweet r»otatoes, make 

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Comment on Corn 

In a letter recently written by the United 
States Department of Agriculture, this comment 
was made : 

"The average yield per acre of corn for the 
year 1910 was as follows: Ohio, 36.5 bushels; In- 
diana, 39.4 bushels; Illinois, .39.1 bushels; Iowa, 
36.3 bushels. Showing the possibilities of corn 
culture in the South, the average production on 
532 demonstration farms in Mississippi was 42.6 
bushels, and in Alabama on 886 demonstration 
farms, 41.4 bushels." [Read in the appendix to 
this pamphlet what Secretary Wilson of the United 
States Department of Agriculture says about corn 
and farming in the South.] 

Some Corn on Farm of Farmer's 
Union President 

J. A. Quick, who is President of the Forrest 
County Farmers' Union, is one of the Northern 
men who has located in Mississippi and has an ex- 
cellent farm at the edge of Hattiesburg. On six 
acres of Mr. Quick's farm he gathered 456 bush- 



els of corn. The entire cost of this crop of six 
acres was $96 or $16 an acre, including all labor. 
His farm is a model in every particular, occupying 
about two hundred acres. He has done much to 
demonstrate the profit producing possibilities of 
the Mississippi cut-over land. His other crops 
have produced equally as well in proportion as 
his corn. 

Oats do Particularly Well 

The oats crop has proven both popular and 
profitable in this section. The straw makes tall 
and heavy growth and the heads are long and well 
filled out. Some rust-proof variety like the turkey 
red is usually sown. Fiftv bushels to the acre is 
considered a good average yield. After harvest- 
ing his oats the farmer may plant corn in the same 
land as a second crop. Oats are sown in October, 
used as a pasture to March 1, and harvested in 
May. 

Large Potato Yield 

Potatoes are especially fitted to this soil. Bear 
in mind we are not telling vou what can be done. 
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been done by farmers on this same land for a num- 
ber of years. When Irish potatoes yield less than 
100 bushels to the acre, something is usually wrong 
with the farming methods employed. Then there 



is time enough for two other crops to grow on the 
same land in the same vear. 

J. T. Delk of Hattiesburg, owning a farm with- 
in a stone's throw of the eastern line of the farms 
we are offering you, planted five acres in Irish 
potatoes in 1911 and raised 200 bushels to the 
acre, for which he refused $1.50 a bushel, holding 
them till spring for higher prices. 

J. D. Pool of Hattiesburg, on the same sort of 
land, planted his Irish potatoes five feet six inches 
apart, gathered 115 bushels to the acre and had 
his corn planted between the rows when the po- 
tatoes were dug. The corn produced 96 bushels 
to the acre and gave time for a third crop the same 
year. 

Enormous Sweet Potato Crops 

Sweet potatoes are a banner crop in Mississippi, 
producing under proper cultivation from 200 to 
400 bushels to the acre. The cut-over lands have 
produced as high as 500 bushels to the acre. There 
is always a good market. The canning of sweet 
potatoes is a Southern industry that supplies a uni- 
versal market and a canning plant at Hattiesburg 
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R. W. Thompson, representative of the United 
States Department of Agriculture with headquar- 
ters at Hattiesburg, points out in one of his re- 
ports that 200 bushels of sweet potatoes is an easy 
average crop to the acre. 

Water-melons, Cantaloupe and Peanuts 

Mr. Thompson also calls attention to the fact 
that one farmer realized $1,000 from nine acres 
of water-melons, afterwards raising a crop of pea- 
vine hay worth $20 a ton, and left the land in shape 
for a winter pasture for hogs. Cantaloupes pro- 
duce in large quantities of excellent quality and 
both the early water-melon and the early canta- 
loupe should be made an important feature in ship- 
ping to the Northern markets. 

The growing of the Spanish peanut has de- 
veloped most wonderfully within the last few 
years. It is not only a profitable crop in the pro- 
duction of nuts, but the vines produce about a ton 
to the acre and make excellent hay. Hattiesburg 
jobbing houses are ready to purchase all the pea- 



nuts that are raised by the farmers in the country 
round about at the highest prevailing market price. 

Sugar-Cane and What One Man 
Made on Tvvehe Acres 

J. T. Delk, the same man who grew the Irish 
potatoes mentioned in this book, planted twelve 
acres of ribbon cane in 1911 and sold to the Mer- 
chants Grocery Company of Hattiesburg five thou- 
sand gallons of syrup at fifty cents a gallon, after 
retaining enough of the cane to plant 25 acres for 
his 1912 crop. His 1912 product was contracted 
for at fifty cents a gallon. This land is especially 
adapted to cane. The syrup is equal in flavor to 
the best maple. The machinery used in making 
the syrup is very inexpensive. Mr. Thompson, the 
United States Department of Agriculture repre- 
sentative, has stated in a report that 450 gallons of 
syrup to the acre is a very moderate estimate. 
Nearly every farmer in the vicinity now grows 
enough cane for his own familv use and a largely 
increased production will be found profitable. A 
canning plant with facilities for handling all the 
business ofi^ered is located at Hattiesburg. 



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The boys' corn clubs have been so successful 
that the United States Government Agricultural 
Department has organized girls' tomato clubs. 
One of them is at Hattiesburg. The girls not only 
raise but can their tomatoes under the instruction 
of the United States Government experts. The 
cans are the same as those used in large canneries 
and the canned tomatoes are marketed under 
proper labels. The winner in 1911 on the cut- 
over lands of Mississippi produced $100 worth of 
canned tomatoes from one-tenth of an acre, this 
being the unit used in the competition. This is 
equal to $1,000 an acre. In 1912 Miss Susie Chat- 
ham of Hattiesburg canned 1,852 cans of tomatoes 
from one-tenth of an acre, won the national prize 
and sold the tomatoes for $131.18 cash, or at the 
rate of $1,31 1.80 an acre. Her family also ate all 
they wished from her patch during the season. 
Her net profit on the tenth of an acre was $107.75. 

In the raising of tomatrfes, both climate and 
soil are especiallv suited and some very prosperous 
farming communities testify to the value of the 
crop. Here is a sample wlTich is not classed as a 
remarkable exception : 



J. D. Ford bought 50 acres of cut-over land in 
December, 1910. He planted nine acres in toma- 
toes, the balance of the farm going into other crops 
and the breeding of hogs. June 1, 1911, he had 
marketed his tomatoes. From that nine acres alone 
he had paid for his farm, paid for improvements, 
cropping and marketing and had $1,875 in cash 
left over. The tomatoes were marketed in the 
North, while Mississippi growers had nothing but 
hot house products with which to compete. 

Tomatoes not only grow in Mississippi ahead 
of Northern crops but late tomatoes can reach into 
the Northern cold weather and secure the benefit 
of other high prices. 

It was because of the fitness of Mississippi for 
fine tomatoes that the United States Government 
decided to pay particular attention to increasing 
the cultivation. 

Carloads of Early Cucumbers 

Cucumbers constitute another standard and 
most profitable crop on these Mississippi farms. 
They are the earliest to the Northern fancy mar- 
kets, as arc tomatoes. Very early in the spring 
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been done for the past three years, and the farm- 
ers who have engaged in cucumber growing have 
realized from $100 to $200 an acre, shipping only 
the "selects." The "culls," including all cucum- 
bers not perfect in shape and size, have been 
thrown away or fed to the hogs. The canning and 
pickling plants now take care of all this surplus 



and materially increase the farmer's profit. Both 
cucumbers and tomatoes are gathered before the 
end of May, just as they are starting in the North, 
and the farmer in Mississippi has the rest of the 
year for other crops. More farmers each year are 
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The farmers in one section of the cut-over dis- 
trict of Southern Mississippi in 1911 combined to 
raise cucumbers for the early market. They 
shipped and marketed fifty-two carloads at a net 
profit of $325 a car, or a net profit per acre of 
$130. This is on the sort of land which we are 
offering and represents only one of three crops 
that can be grown the same year on the same land. 

Onions 

The lands all about Hattiesburg have thorough- 
ly demonstrated that they will grow anything in 
the fruit and vegetable line. T. A. Hightower, a 
Hattiesburg merchant, has experimented in grow- 
ing Bermuda onions. The onions Mr. Hightower 
grew were in every respect the equal of the Texas 
product — good size and verv firm, being well ma- 
tured and perfectly sound. His harvest amounted 
to $250 an acre and Mr. Hightower believes that 
he will far exceed this, profiting by some experi- 
ments which he made in his first crop. 

Mr. E. B. Ferris, manager of the McNeill 
Experiment Station, writes us: 

E. A. CuMMiNGs & Co., McNeill, Miss., May 9, 1912. 

Chicago, 111. 
Dear Sirs: 

Answering your letter in regard to growing Bermuda onions. 



we have grown onions here in small quantities for a number of 
years, and I know no reason why they should not be grown com- 
mercially in this section. In fact, I know a number of individual 
farmers and truckers who do grow them for local markets, but as 
yet the crop has never been grown in any great quantity. They, of 
course, require very highly improved land, and our people have 
heretofore failed to build up their soils as they should be for this 
crop. 

I have now before me a Bermuda onion that was grown by 
J. J. Scarborough of Poplarville, Miss., which measures 13 inches 
in circumference after the outside hull had been removed, and 
weighs one pound. 

Mr. Scarborough is postmaster at Poplarville, Miss., 14 miles 
north of us, and sent me the onion to show how nicely they had 
grown. 

I feel sure that you could recommend the crop to prospective 
settlers on these lands with the understanding that the soils would 
have to he built up before they would successfully produce them. 

Yours truly, 

E. B. Ferris. 

One Acre of Cabbages and Cotton 

The United States Government employs a num- 
ber of expert farmers who spend their time among 
people who are cultivating the soil, aiding them 
in securing the best possible results. At a recent 
meeting of these men employed by the agricultural 
department, there were many reports from these 
farming sections. Here is one: 

J. E. Slaughter planted an acre in cabbage, 
his rows being six feet apart. This was planted 
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cotton between the rows. His cabbage crop sold 
for $350. He gathered 4,360 pounds of seed cot- 
ton. He sold his cotton seed for $200 and the cot- 
ton brought him $142.70 at the prevailing low 
price. 

Had he planted his cabbage rows three feet 
apart instead of si.\, he could have doubled his 
crop, and following the cabbage could have 
planted corn or potatoes and taken much more 
from the same land he did. This would have left 
plenty of time for a third crop of peas or beans. 

All Sorts of Truck 

The land can be made to produce five trucking 
crops each twelve months and there is nothing that 
grows in the garden that does not do well here and 
for which there is not a steadv market. The head 
lettuce, which is the favorite varietv, is shown in 
samples at the Hattiesburg Commercial Club as 
large as ordinary cabbages. 

Each year there are more and more strawber- 
ries being grown and they produce a crop that 
adds much to the farmer's annual profits. The 
soil and climate are especially fitted and markets 



are within reach. In some parts of this cut-over 
section of Mississippi large areas of land are given 
over exclusively and profitably to growing crops 
of strawberries. 

As a demonstration of the ability of the land 
to produce five good trucking cn^ps a year, Mr. 
H. A. Camp of Hattiesburg, President of the Hat- 
tiesburg Trust & Banking Company, set aside a 
tract of Hattiesburg land, beginning his planting 
on New Years Day, 191 1. On part of the land he 
planted radishes and another part was used for 
lettuce. This produced abundantlv, matured and 
was ofif the land the last week in February. Im- 
mediately following this he planted Irish potatoes. 
In 65 days he took the potatoes out of the ground 
and planted snap beans. The last days of June he 
planted June corn in this same plot of land. This 
matured in September. The land was then planted 
part in turnips and part in cabbage. All these 
five crops vielded abundantlv. No two crops were 
on the land at the same time, the demonstration 
being to show that soil and climate will produce 
five clean crops in one season and with part of 
December unemployed. 



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A Good Stock Country 



Hogs and Cattle 



IN THE raising of hogs, cattle, mules, horses 
and sheep, Mississippi has many natural and 
economic advantages. The weather is never 
cold enough to make it necessary to shelter the 
stock. The streams fed mostly by living springs 
are numerous and always flowing with excellent 
water. The native grasses growing all over this 
cut-over territory are fine for grazing. Bermuda 
and Lespedeza grasses are extensively sown and 
take hold readily. Secretary of Agriculture Wil- 
son has publicly declared that all investigations 
and experiments by his Department, as well as the 
present stage of development, justify the predic- 
tion that in a very few years^ the South will not 
only exceed in productiveness any farming section 
of the country, but that it will raise more and bet- 
ter hogs and cattle and raise them much cheaper 
than anv other countrv on earth. 



Thorough-Bred Stock 



The days of the "razor-back" have passed. The 
raising of fine hogs and cattle is increasing each 
year. Hereford, Jersey and Holsteins are the best 
varieties of cows, and the Berkshire and Poland 
China hogs predominate. Many of the hogs raised 
here have been shipped to other states for breed- 
ing stock, and the farmers who set aside a part of 
their land for breeding of good hogs will be able 
for some years to sell most of the product for 
breeding at prices that mean fancy profits. The 
extensive feeding of corn is not necessary. The 
velvet bean, as a grazing crop, is a wonderful fat- 
tener both for cattle and hogs. The Lespedeza 
grass as both a grazing and hay crop is one of the 
best in the South. It is not damaged in using for 
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Cattle on the range in the midst of the lands being sold by ti A Cummings & Co Notice the excellent pasture 

ing under. It produces a heavy crop of hay that says, "I am sure that I can produce hogs at much 

always sells at a good price. less cost here than I did in Illinois. I will have a 

^ x*,T- • -It- o I dairy of fifty cows on one farm and am buying 

One Man s Experience with Live Stock ^^^^^ ^^^ f^r two more dairies. 1 find dairying 

and Dairying" more profitable here than in Illinois. Cheap land, 

H. D. Curley, who was originally in the stock short winters, cheap labor and good prices for 

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the North in this line. I have a small Hock of for one and one-fourth cents per pound live 
sheep that are doing well; the lambs are coming weight. Mules, horses and cattle can be profit- 
now and the weather is ideal for them. Mules ably raised on almost every farm. There are 
can be grown here at less cost than in any section 
of the North where they are grown to supply this 
market. I am positive that this belt is to become 
one of the best stock countries in the world." 

Read What One of the Best Informed 
U. S. Officials Says 

G. H. Alford, who has represented the United 
States Government in supervising farm work in 
the Southern part of Mississippi, says, "We need 
good hogs to manufacture grass, peanuts, sweet 
potatoes, peas, soja beans and other farm products 
into pork and lard. Bermuda grass alone will 
keep hogs fat and growing all the summer. Ex- 
cellent winter and earlv spring pastures can be 
obtained by sowing hairy vetch, white, red or burr 
clover seed broadcast on Bermuda or carpet grass 
early in the fall. Oats, rye, rape or orchard grass 
planted in October furnish good winter pasture 
iov hogs. Verv little corn is necessary and it 
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traverse it and water is obtained from wells at 
small depth. Bermuda or carpet grass well 
sodded furnishes as good summer pasture as can 
be found in North America." 

A Wood Scene. Oxen are used for hauling the forest 
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New Settlers 

D. M. Collier was in the dairying business in 
New York. State for a number of years. He was 
successful. He investigated Mississippi as a 
dairying state and decided to purchase a farm 
and locate at Hattiesburg, disposing of his prop- 
erties in New York. 

He purchased one thousand acres of the J. J. 
Newman Lumber Company lands on the line of 
the Mississippi Central Railroad. This is his 
dairy farm. In the same vicinity he has estab- 
lished a creamery where he manufactures all dairy 
products and sells them in the Hattiesburg mar- 
ket. He believes he has located in the best dairy- 
ing section in the country. He sells his milk at 
ten cents a quart and constant increases in his dairy 
fail to supply the demand. 

Success in Stock Breeding 

S. P. Carter has been farming near Hattiesburg 
for fourteen years, having one hundred acres 
under cultivation. Corn, sweet potatoes, Irish 
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about seventy-five bushels to an acre and in some Chinas in raising hogs for the meat market, and 

instances shows as good as 125 bushels to the acre, for breeding stock he sells the Poland Chinas, 

His Irish and sweet potatoes follow his oats crop, both being most profitable. He also breeds Jer- 

the sweet potatoes reaching 250 bushels or more to sey cattle, grazing them on a tract of uncleared 

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some of the three crops a year 

prosperous farmers. His goats raise themselves 
and yield big returns since the cost of raising is 
practically nothing. 

Farmer from Illinois Likes Dairying in 

Mississippi 

Mr. Unkrich moved recently from Belvidere, 
Illinois, to Mississippi. Viewing the cut-over 



lands of the Southern State from the soil produc- 
tiveness, considering the possibility of three ma- 
ture crops a year instead of taking chances on one 
crop in the North, Mr. Unkrich makes this com- 
ment : 

"If the average Illinois farmer could only see 
what this land of Mississippi is, he would sell his 
high priced lands and come and locate in this 
state. The native Southern farmer finds it so easv 
to make a living and raise crops and stock that 
he is not getting half what he should from his 
land, and still he prospers. The methods of South- 
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ern farmers applied to Northern lands would 
starve the farmer to death. The methods of North- 
ern farmers applied to Southern farms will make 
any man rich, as is well proven in the records of 
some of the Northern farmers who have come 
South. Some energetic Southern farmers have 
demonstrated the same possibilities. 

"Dairies are very few here, and at the present 
time and for years past milk has been selling at 
ten cents a quart and butter brings thirty-five and 
forty cents per pound, with markets for all that 
can be produced for the next twentv years. 

"In Illinois the dairymen have only seven 
months out of the year to pasture their cattle, while 
you have twelve months here. In the North also, 
labor is high and the incomes small as compared 
with this country. Yet Elgin sets the price for 
creamery products, and the most dairymen of Illi- 
nois get for their milk is four cents wholesale, and 
si.x and seven cents retail. Despite the heavv ex- 
pense the farmers of the North get rich in five 
years. 

"It is impossible to describe the conditions in 
this country, but I know that it is the ideal place 
for the Northern farmer to get rich quick." 



Poultry is Very Profitable 

The raising of poultrv is an industry that up to 
a few years ago was much neglected. The mild 
climate makes the country well fitted and the 

View of field of oaLs taken in January and home of P. M. Ikler, north of 
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markets makes the industry most proHtable. All 
the best varieties of chickens are now being raised 
on many of the farms and we advise every farmer 
in the Slississippi country to raise all the poultry 
his space will permit. 

Residence of D Emmet Mclnnis. Hattieshurs. Mississippi 




Bees Can Always Work 

J. B. Edwards, who has an extensive and suc- 
cessful experience in raising bees, says, "With the 
natural flora and vegetation of the South, there is 
no reason to mv mind why there should not be 
bees on every farm, be it large or small. Since 
honey can be produced of the very best quality 
with the least cost and trouble, there is no reason 
why the supply of the country should not come 
from the South. There is scarcely a period of 
the entire year when the busy bee cannot be work- 
ing. From early in spring until Christmas some 
plants are blooming and producing food for the 
bees. It is an absolute fact that in almost every 
locality there is no need of supplying food to carry 
bees through any portion of the year. 

"With the coming of the Northern farmer into 
the South the apiary will not be the uncommon 
sight it is at the present time. It pays to have the 
bees for the ht)ney they produce and the benefit 
to the various crops. I talked to one farmer who 
told me that his expense for caring for 34 hives 
was $42 per year and he sold honey amounting 
to $136, besides having what the family wanted." 



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The Home of the Paper Shell Pecan 



A Profitable Crop 



EVERY man who buys a farm in South Mis- 
sissippi should plant some pecan trees. The 
very best varieties of trees two to three years 
old and from five to eight feet tall can be bought 
on an average of about $1.00 apiece. These are 
the select trees. The farmer should plant these 
fifty feet apart, which will make about 17 trees 
to the acre. The cost of this first planting will be 
about $25 an acre. The care of the pecan tree is 
practically no expense. A less expensive way of 
planting these orchards is to plant the ordinary 
pecan and have the seedlings budded from a good 
tree the second year. In this way, at very little 
expense, a man can plant a large acreage. 

Bearing Orchards Bring Large Prices 

You have but to inquire to find out that paper 
shell pecan orchards from three to five years old 
have never sold in this pecan country at less than 



$250 an acre, and from that as high as $400. In 
one instance, $80,000 was refused for an orchard 
of eighty acres fifteen years old. 

The trees in these orchards do not inter- 
fere with the cultivation of the soil for ordinary 
crops. In fact, the better the soil is cultivated, the 
more benefit to the trees. 

The pecan usually begins to bear a few nuts 
at four years of age. In one instance, where Mr. 
F"rank W. Foote, Active Vice-President of the 
First National Bank of Commerce at Hattiesburg 
(which, by the way, is the largest bank in the 
State of Mississippi), planted one of these trees 
in front of his residence, it produced one peck of 
tine pecans in the fourth year. This tree was an 
exception. 

Estimated Production 

A pecan grower planted a nice looking tree 
in 1892 and decided to keep track of it for the 



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way of production. At four years of age this tree 
yielded one nut; the crop was carefully gathered 
and weighed each year thereafter for fifteen years 
from the date of planting. Taking this as a sam- 
ple tree, he prepared the following table, estimat- 
ing twenty trees to the acre as showing the possi- 
bility of the pecan. 

This table is interesting as showing possible 
results of pecan growing in Southern Mississippi: 





Years 


Yield 


Yield 


per 


Value 


Value 




from 


per 


acre 


of 


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for 10 


Year 


Piantin 


Si tree 


20 trees 


acre 


acres 


1896 


4 


1 


nut 


20 


nuts 






1897 


5 


7 


lbs. 


140 lbs. 


$ 70 


f> 700 


1898 


6 


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210 


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105 


1.050 


1899 


7 


13i 


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270 


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135 


1.350 


1900 


8 


16- 


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320 


u 


160 


1.600 


1901 


9 


27 


u 


540 


u 


270 


2,700 


1902 


10 


45 


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450 


4,500 


1903 


11 


80 


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1.600 


(1 -" 


800 


8,000 


1904 


12 


121 


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2,420 


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1.210 


12,100 


1905 


13 


131 


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2,620 


It 


1.310 


13,100 


1906 


14 


152 


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3,040 


a 


1,520 


15,200 


1907 


15 


177 


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3,540 


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1,770 


17,700 




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The foregoing estimate is made at fifty cents 
a pound, whereas most of the choice varieties sell 
from seventy-live cents to a dollar a pound and 
retail at from §1.25 to SI. 50 a pound in the north 
and east. It pa\s to plant peciins, whether the 



farmer plants nursery stock or plants the nuts and 
secures the huds for grafting. There are ordinarily 
no pests to fight, such as one contends with in apple 
orchards, peach orchards and the like. Outside 
of giving the soil a little attention, all the pecan 
tree asks is to be let alone and it will attend to 
producing its own crop. 




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As a Fruit Country 



Grapes and Small Fruit 



WHEN the farmer in Mississippi has con- 
sidered the value of his land because of 
the value of three ordinary standard crops 
which can be raised yearly, and the hogs, cattle and 
poultry he can raise for market, he has by no 
means exhausted his resources. His farm will do 
more. It will produce as fine grapes as ever grew 
in France or in California. Men who have grown 
grapes in both France and California are growing 
them in Mississippi today. They declare that the 
Mississippi product is equal to any in quantity and 
quality produced anywhere. Jiivery farmer should 
plant some grapes. Plum trees do well and bear 
heavily. Nearly every farmer has a few peach 
trees, and berry vines of all sorts thrive luxuri- 
antly and bear prolifically. 



Figs 

The fig is another crop the value of which is 
already but partially demonstrated. Mississippi 
has developed a fig that is cut close to the ground 
the first of March each year. The root sends up 
new shoots and the fruit begins forming as the 
shoots appear at the surface. At the first of July 
the figs nearest the ground are ripe for picking 
and the branches grow to a height of ten to twelve 
feet with the figs about two inches apart the full 
length. The shoots are so numerous from the roots 
after the second year that they must be thinned. 
When the land is given over entirely to fig culture 
about 140 trees are planted to the acre and some 
companies are now engaged in planting and sell- 
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An txcellent picture storv of the country. In the background is the uncut native forest. In the foreground the cattle feedind on native gra-ises on undeveloped cutover 

land. In the midst of this is the farm. This land produces three mature crops each year. The Secretary of Agriculture has publicly 

declared that this will be the greatest hog and cattle section of the country, because of abundance of 

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Some Advantages of the Hattiesburg Region 



Good Wagon Roads Besides Railroads 



INTEREST in the building of good roads is 
very much aroused. Many of the counties of 
Mississippi are building extensively every year. 
Under the supervision of United States Govern- 
ment experts, a model road has been completed 
frcmi the city of Hattiesburg connecting with other 
roads leading directly into the lands of the New- 
man Lumber Company which we are now offering 
for sale. The material is at hand for the construc- 
tion of these roads in the most economical manner 
and the public spirit of the people will make the 
work progress very rapidly. 

The Canning Plant 

The canning plant at Hattiesburg is one of the 
best equipped and largest in the State of Missis- 
sippi. It began operation the first of October, 
1912, to take care of manv new farmers coming in 



and to encourage larger production by the farmers 
already there. Sweet potatoes, sugar cane, cab- 
bage and other crops are contracted before the 



The New Canning Plant at Hattiesburg, the largest in Mississippi, 
take care of the crops of all the farmers 



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Miss Nannie Chatham, Hatciesburg, Mississippi. Petal Station, canned 1852 cans of 
tomatoes from one-tenth of an acre, netting over $ 100 profit and winning 
national prize over all contestants in rival states 




planting or bought from the Held when harvested. 
This insures a ready cash and sure market for all 
crops produced. The canning plant is owned by 
D. Emmet Mclnnis and W. NI. Conner, two of 
the wealthy men of Hattiesburg who have other 
large business interests in the same city and who 
are personally interested in co-operation with the 
farmers in developing the country to the highest 
degree. 

Schools 

The state's school svstem is especially well or- 
ganized as are also the schools of the several coun 
ties. Forrest Countv, of which Hattiesbuig is 
the countv seat, has a splendid school organization. 
Aside from the public schools there is a State 
Normal college now being constructed at Hatties- 
burg at a cost of a half million dollars. There is 
also a good woman's college. In addition to this, 
under the authority of the state law recently 
passed, each county may establish an agricultural 
school teaching scientific farming and domestic 
science. One of these schools is being opened near 
Hattiesburg. These schools are conducted under 
the direction of the State Agricultural College. 
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farm crops, horticulture, soils and fertilizers, ani- 
mal husbandry, farm engineering, farm manage- 
ment, dairying and farm bookkeeping are taught. 
The public schools of the common school grade 
are in session eight months of the year and any 
community with five or more children is entitled 
to public school facilities. 

This is one of the many school buildings of Hattiesburg. The city has a High 
School, Woman's College and State Normal College being 
built at a co^t of half a million dollars 




Banking Facilities 

The banking business of Hattiesburg is taken 
care of by three very strong institutions including 
the largest National Bank in the State of Missis- 
sippi. The business done by these banks and the 
fact that they have deposits of nearly $3,000,000, 
indicate a thriving condition of the business com- 
munity. 

Besides having the largest national bank in the 
State of Mississippi there is a strong state bank 
and one of the strongest trust companies in the 
South. All these institutions are controlled and 
managed by men of wealth and standing, and the 
growth under their management indicates their 
ability. 

Hattiesburg is less than fifteen years old. It is 
a new and thriving communitv. The condition of 
the banks as much as any other one thing will indi- 
cate how substantial has been this growth. 

September 1st, 1901, for instance, the First 
National Bank deposits amounted to $358,000. 
The deposits in this bank have now increased to 
approximately $1,900,000. The Citizens Bank 
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Store and Office Building at Hattieshurg This city, only about fifteen 
years old, and with a population of over 1 2, (IDA. is one 
of the best cities of the New South 

have increased their deposits to a corresponding 
extent. 

Each one of these banks offers the same advan- 



tages and conditions to its customers that can be 
found in any of the financial institutions or national 
banks of any of the large cities of the North. 

Plenty of Work in the Mills in 

Spare Time 

There are about thirty lumber mills in this ter- 
ritory along the Mississippi Central Railroad 
The smallest of these cuts 10,000 feet a day and 
the largest 300,000 feet. Thev offer a special op- 
portunity for anv farmers wishing to find profit- 
able employment any part of the year when work 
on the farm is slack. At the busy season on the 
farm it is also possible for the farmer to secure 
good labor in planting or harvesting his crops. 

The Mississippi Central Connects with 

Many Railroads 

The Mississippi Central Railroad, along which 
these lands lie, extends from Hatticsburg to Nat- 
chez, a distance of 150 miles. Between the two 
terminal points there are thirty-six stations, with 
double daily train service. At a large percentage 
of these stations there are sidings and every oppor- 



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Mississippi Central Train as it pulls intti tlic I i;itlicshui"K StalH)n carrying 
land seel<ers from the North 



At Hattiesburg there is the Gulf and Ship 
Island, New Orleans and Northeastern, which is 
the Southern end of the Queen and Crescent, and 
the New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago, recently 
taken over by the Frisco Svstem and Louisville 
and Nashville, leading directly to Mobile and to 
the North. 

Sumrall, which is nineteen miles from Hatties- 
burg, has about two thousand population and is 
surrounded bv an excellent farming community in 
the midst of the lands we are offering. 

Mississippi Central train at the Sumrall depot. One of the land 
seekers excursions of M A ("umminR*^ fV Co 



tunity is offered for shippers to get their freight 
to the market. 

At Natchez the road connects with the Mis- 
souri Pacific and the Yazoo and Mississippi Val- 
lev Railroads. At Roxie connection is made with 
the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley; at Brookhaven, 
county seat for Lincoln County, a city of about 
,\000 people, with the Illinois Central; at Wanilla 
with the New Orleans Great Nortliern; at Silver 
Creek with the Columbia branch of the Gulf and 
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Mississippi at the Land Show in Chicago. The Mississippi exhibit of corn, oats, sweet potatoes, cane syrup, canned vegetables and 

other products was examined by many land seekers, some of whom have since bought land for farms in 

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An interesting folder describing the country 
along the Mississippi Central Railroad can be 
obtained free of charge by sending your name and 
address to Mr. R. K. Smith, Hattiesburg, Miss., 
the Vice-President and General Manager of the 
road. 

Roses and Posies 

The kindly earth of our part of Mississippi not 
only provides abundant food for the diligent hus- 
bandmen, but also contributes pleasure for the 
whole family by the blossoming beauty of many 
varieties of flowering; plants and shrubs which 
thrive with little care. The flower beds in the 
open air furnish blossoms of various kinds every 
month in the year. From violets in February to 
roses in November the procession of the months 
brings a constant succession of beauty and fra- 
grance. This is an all-the-year-round-out-of-doors 



country, and there is scarcely a day when the most 
delicate woman cannot be in the open air with 
comfort and pleasure. 



rhe New Pustofficc at Hattiesburg. first occupied January Ut, 1^12 
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THE J. J. Newman Lumber Company, the 
owner of the lands represented by us, is the 
largest lumber company <iperating in the 
State of Mississippi. 

It is a corporation, organized under the laws 
of the State of Mississippi, in the year 1894. 

When this company w'as organized, it took 
over a saw mill at Hattiesburg, Mississippi, which 
had a capacity of 50,U()0 feet per day. Its present 
mill, on the same site as the small mill, on the main 
line of the Mississippi Central Railroad, just out- 
side the corporation limits of Hattiesburg, is a 
modern steel and concrete structure, built in 190S, 
and has a capacity of 260,000 feet per day; and, 
with the modern buildings for drying, storing and 
dressing lumber, occupies a total of forty acres of 
land. 

It also has a box factory in connection with this 
mill, which will manufacture 20,000 feet of box 
shooks per day, to take care of the canning and 
gardening truck produced in this vicinity. 



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The J. J. Newman Lumber Co. 

Owner from W honi Purchasers (Jet Warranty Deeds 

At Sumrall, Mississippi, nineteen miles west 



of Hattiesburg, on the main line of the Mississippi 
Central, this company, in 1902, built its second 
mill, with a capacity of 100,000 feet per day; and, 
in 1904, it built another large mill, with a capacity 
of .100,000 feet per day. 

This last mill was destroyed by fire in 1911, 
and was promptly rebuilt, with steel and concrete, 
absolutely fire-proof, and placed in operation on 
June 1st,' 1912. 

In the operations of this company, it uses 
eleven locomotives and three hundred cars, to 
transpt)rt logs from the woods to the mills. 

The total cutting capacity of t)00,000 feet per 
day, gives employment to approximately txco thon- 
sdiiJ }uen, in the mills and woods operations. 

The officers of the company are: 

F. 1,. PECK., FresiJciit, Scranton, Pa. 

C. D. JONES, ria--Pr,siJcHt, Scranton, Pa. 

G. F. ROVCE, Secretary, Scranton, Pa. 
J. T. PORTER, Treasurer, Scranton, Pa. 

E. S. W,^^¥^, Assistant Seerelary aiiJ Assistant Treasurer, 'iiixMWaw, Pa. 
W. 1. HA\'NEN, General Manager, Hattiesburg, Miss. 



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Chapter X 

What We Offer You 

Price Less Than Actual Value 



THE price at which the land is being sold 
should not be taken as an indication of its 
actual value to the farmer. It is by no means 
in proportion to what the land will produce in the 
way of crops. 

The same quality of lands in other parts of 
South Mississippi is being rapidly sold today in 
small tracts at from $20 to $35 and more an acre 
and the purchasers are receiving good value. 

It is the policy of the J. J. Newman Lumber 
Company and of E. A. Cummings & Company 
and the Mississippi Central Railroad to offer to 
the farmer all possible advantages enabling him to 
develop his land as rapidly as possible. The rail- 
road wants more freight and passenger business 
and the lumber company has many thousands of 
additional land acreage which will be largely in- 
creased in value by the settling of the land now 
offered for sale. For these reasons the price of 



the land is now placed at a SMALL FIGURE and the 
terms are such that they can be easily met, five 
years being allowed after the first payment to com- 
plete the purchase price. 

Any farmer who takes a tract of forty acres 
or more and works earnestly and intelligently in 
producing his crops, or in raising stock, should 
PAY FOR ALL HIS LAND AND HAVE A GOOD CASH 
SURPLUS long ahead of the time when the deferred 
payments will fall due. 

All Titles are Perfect 

Title to these lands is absolutely clear and un- 
encumbered in any way. The lands were orig- 
inally and a very few years ago, transferred on 
government patent. There are very few transfers 
from the issuing of the government patent to the 
time when they were secured by purchase by the 
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This organization, which is one of the strongest 
financiallv and otherwise, in the country, furnishes 
the abstract and makes ^V.\RR.\\T^■ DKFD direct to 
the man who purchases each farm. 

Conclusion 

\\'c believe that on fullest investigation and 
after careful examination of the land herein de- 
scribed, vou will be convinced that it will be a 
good thing for you to OWX SOME OF IT. 

We do not ofifer you something for nothing. 
but we do propose to sell and are selling this land 
in tracts of forty acres and over at what it is worth 
now and in its present condition, so that vou can 
reasonably expert to be paid for vour time and 
labor in putting it under cultivation by IXCREASF. 
IN VALUE AND .SATISFACTORY RFTIRXS FROM THF 
CROPS RAISED. 



Our resident manager at Hattiesburg, Miss., 
will see to furnishing you EXPERT ADMCE as to what 
crops to grow and how to raise them. 

\^'e will see to marketing at best possible advan- 
tage any crops raised by you under our direction. 

We will promote your icelfare to the best of 
our ability and so far as is consistent with vour 
own independence and best interests. 

We always try to lend a helping hand, because 
we want to do so and because it pavs — prosperous 
and contented settlers are our best advertisers and 
sales agents. 

We want to t.\lk oiR proposition oxer w ith 
^■OL' face to face, ^^'rite for full description of 
some tract about the number of acres you might 
like to own. We are confident we can MEET YOL'R 
VIEWS AS TO LOCATION, QL ALITV OF LAND. PRICE 
AND TERMS. 

It will be a pleasure to answer vour (Questions. 



E. A. Cummings Sc Company 



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NOTE CENTRAL LOCATION. Our lands are on both sides of the Mississippi Central Railroad just 
West of Hattiesburg. New Orleans, Gulfport, Mobile and all important points north, east and west are at 
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Read What Secretary Wilson of the United States Department of Agriculture has Said 



SPEAKING of the possibilities of farms in 
the cut-over lands of Mississippi, there is 
no better authority than Secretary Wilson of 
the United States Department of Agriculture. 
His conclusions are based upon extensive experi- 
mentation and observation and all that has been 
accomplished. He is not dealing in speculation 
based upon opinion. Here are a few extracts from 
an address delivered by him before the Annual 
Convention of the Southern Commercial Con- 
gress at Atlanta, Ga. 

"Dairying is a branch of stock raising that 
should be developed in the South. The production 
of dairy products there is far below the consump- 
tion. Less than 5 per cent of the creamery butter 
and less than 2 per cent of the cheese consumed in 
the South are produced there, and even the milk 
supply is insufficient for local needs. This means 
that millions of dollars are annuallv sent away for 
these necessarv foods, while this monev might just 



as well be kept at home and be used in building 
up a prosperous industry. 

"We have heard much about the increased cost 
of living and conserving our food supply. The 
country's beef supply has been diminishing in pro- 
portion to population at an alarming rate in recent 
years. Beef has been getting scarcer and higher; 
our home demand has taken nearly all our supply, 
and our export trade has shown a heavy decline. 
Here in the South is plenty of unused land that 
could be profitably used in cattle raising; here is 
a temperate climate; here are conditions favorable 
for producing abundant feed; here are pastures 
that can be grazed practically the year round, 
while Northern farmers must feed through a se- 
vere winter. 

"Let us look forward to the time when the 
South will not only feed itself but will help to feed 
the teeming population of our eastern cities, when 
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sified farming including stock raising and dairy- 
ing; when the fertility of the soil will be largely 
kept up by live stock; when the native scrub will 
be replaced by our pure-bred animal; when feeds 
will go to make beef and milk; when better meth- 
ods and conditions will have built up a prosperous 
agriculture. I wish every Southern farmer could 
see this vision and help to make it a reality. 

"The South really believed that it was no corn 
country, and a man would have regarded it as an 
indication of slight insanity if anyone had gone 
through the South and told them it was one of the 
best corn countries in the world. The South would 
not have believed it, and the Northwest Corn Belt 
would certainly have doubted it, but you have 
shown during the past year through the boys' corn 
clubs, that it is strictly true that the South is a 
marvelous country for the production of corn. 
Think of one hundred boys in the South producing 
on one hundred acres of land an average of 133.7 
bushels of corn per acre. There was such wide- 
spread disbelief in the South that the Department 
of Agriculture had to appeal to the boys to lead 
the way to show their seniors what could be done. 
This movement has proven that the average 
farmer onlv gets out of the soil one-tenth of what 



he could if he did his best. This is true in nearly 
all of the productions, hence the Department of 
Agriculture insists on less acres of cotton and more 
cotton to the acre to enable the South to produce 
its own corn, hogs and mules and stop this great 
outflow of money. If this can be stopped the South 
in a few years will become the richest part of the 
world, agriculturally considered. 

"Corn is the basis for cheaper food stuffs, and 
of course cheaper meats. If there is plenty of 
cheap corn in a country, we will see a decline in 
the price of living. It is necessary to have a good corn 
crop to carry on the dairy business successfully. 
The South, instead of importing dairy and poultry 
products, should be shipping large amounts to 
other countries, and I predict that the time will 
come when such will be the fact. I notice that the 
South is aroused. My mission to you is one of 
entire hopefulness because I see great possibilities 
for the South. 

"I shall expect to see you credited with two or 
three billion bushels of corn. Your dairy products 
will amount into the millions and your poultry 
products will supply a nation. Of fruits, no man 
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Hattiesburg, Miss., Jan. 29, 1912. 
E. A. Cum MINGS & Company, 

Land Commissioners Mississippi Central Railroad. 

In reply to your request of recent date relative to educational 
conditions in this county, I beg to submit the following information : 

Permit me to state that it is the policy of our State to provide 
advantages by which every child within the bounds of the State may 
secure a common school education, but the working out of the gen- 
eral plan and the bringing together of the opportunity and the 
child are left largely with the individual county — hence, the infor- 
mation which this article is intended to furnish has reference to 
Forrest County. 

We are glad to be able to state that every community in the 
county with sufficient educable population has a good school estab- 
lished within its bounds. Our school districts are supposed to 
embrace about nine square miles of territory. Should that amount 
of territory be found where a school is not already established for 
the want of educable population, said school would be established just 
as soon as the community is settled up by families requiring school 
advantages. Our school law is elastic in the sense that should sev- 
eral small schools — say of one teacher — desire to combine and 
thereby establish a strong central school, the law authorizes the 
merging of the small school and provides under certain conditions 
that transportation at the expense of the county be given the chil- 
dren who live beyond a reasonable distance from the school. This 
plan has many advantages over the old plan of the one-teacher 
school. 

Our school term in the rural districts opens the first Monday 
of October and usually continues seven consecutive months. The 
course of study embraced in the public school curriculum covers 
eight grades. In addition to our common schools covering the 
course mentioned, we have several high schools in the county cov- 
ering three years' additional work. In addition to these advan- 
tages, we will open at the beginning of the next school term an 
.Agricultural High SchonI, wbicli is located at Brooklyn. 



The county acquired through the generous gift of the good peo- 
ple of the Brooklyn community three hundred and twenty acres of 
beautiful land on which to establish this school. It is the purpose 
of the promoters of the school to make it one of the best in the 
State. Beautiful academic and dormitory buildings will be erected, 
each having all modern conveniences. The school will carry up-to- 
date departments in the following subjects: Agriculture, Live 
Stock, Manual Training, Domestic Science and Academic. Other 
departments will soon be added. Pupils who attend this school will 
receive free tutition, just as they do in all the other public schools 
of the county, and board and incidental expenses will be held at a 
minimum cost. 

The revenues for the support of our public schools are derived 
mainly from three sources: State appropriation, which is based 
upon educable population in the county : poll tax collected in the 
county, and special levy on the taxable property in the county. 
A few schools receive small financial aid from the Sixteenth Sec- 
tion Fund, but this fund in our county is small. 

This article would be incomplete were we to fail to mention the 
class of teachers who are employed in these public schools. We 
are glad to bear testimony to the fact that our schools are in the 
hands of a high type of manhood and womanhood. We could not 
afford to employ any other kind. They are all Christian men and 
women, who have qualified and consecrated themselves to the sacred 
work which they have in hand. No teacher is ever employed who 
has not taken the required examination and obtained a license cover- 
ing the subjects to be taught in the school. As a rule, our teachers 
all hold first grade license ; many have State exemption, which has 
been obtained by virtue of the grade made in examinations and the 
length of service rendered. 

Respectfully, 

E. J. CUKRIE, 

Superintendent of Education, 
Forrest County, Mississippi. 



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Statement of E. B. Ferris, Agricultural Expert 



Mr. E B. 1-erris is director of the Agricultural Department Ex- 
perimental Farm Station at McNeill, Miss., fifty miles from Hatties- 
burg. Miss. In response to a request from us. he has prepared the 
tollowmg written statement : 

For a number of years the "Long Leaf Pine Belt" of South 
Mississippi was regarded as a timber country entirely, and the busi- 
ness of tilling the soil was given vcrv little attention.' the few people 
who pretended to be farmers at all living principally from their 
sheep, catte and hogs, and growing only crops on which to feed 
them for short periods. 

Since the timber on these lands has been cut to a great extent 
the people are just beginning to realize the agricultural possibilities 
ot the soils, and we conlidently expect the greatest development in 
bouth Mississippi during the next ten years that has been seen here- 
tofore in the South. 

. „ Lands similar to ours are already in great demand and are rap- 
idly being taken up by small white farmers. 

Conditions in South Mississippi are peculiarly advantageous to 
the small farmer of limited means, because lands are cheap and 
easily worked; the soils produce well, regardless of weather condi- 
tions, by reason of their excellent mechanical composition, so that 
complete crop failures never occur; the country is well watered and 
range for live stock is unlimited, enabling the early settler to keep 
a lot of live stock and own only small tracts of land; and the 
climate is so mild that shelter for live stock is not necessary, and 
cattle frequently go through the entire winter without feed other 
than that they get on the free range. 

The light sandy soils will produce almost any crop well being 
equally good for corn, cotton, sugar cane, sweet potatoes', light 
tobacco, and a wide range of fruits and vegetables. 

The State of Mississippi is doing much to encourage the develop- 
ment of agriculture in this portion of the State through experiment 
stations, agricultural high schools, farmers' institutes, and the Agri- 
cultural and Mechanical College: while the United States govern- 



ment, in conjunction with the Board of Supervisors of the several 
counties, is maintaining .salaried men in every county of this section 
vyhose business is to carry on farm demonstration work and give 
the many farmers the advantage of advice and experience of men 
vvho have demonstrated their own ability to succeed under conditions 
obtaining here. 

■ ^1"^ JMcXeill Experiment Station is located on typical cut-over 
pine land and has been conducting experiments and farm demonstra- 
tions on these soils since 1902, and has accumulated during that 
time a wide range of information which it has distributed in bulle- 
tins of information and stands ready to render every assistance 
possible to farmers who settle on these lands. 

_ The counties of this Long Leaf Pine Belt have been among the 
hrst to take advantage of the State-aided "County Agricultural 
High Schools." and doubtless in a tew years will all support one of 
these institutions. 

The farmers of this section have always taken great interest 
in farmers' institute work, and the best and most enthusiastic audi- 
eiices that meet the institute lecturers are found in South Mississippi 
These institutes will be of great help to the new citizens who take 
up these cut-over lands and will bring to them at any time experi- 
enced men, capable of advising them as to the best methods to be 
pursued under their new environment. 

Besides the aids just mentioned, the United States Department 
of Agriculture, in connection with the Agricultural and Mechanical 
College. IS maintaining in the State an expert on dairying whose 
business is to assist in any way possible the Mississipp'i dairymen 
who wish to improve their methods by keeping herd records, select- 
ing better dairy cattle and getting better dairy buildings. This 
expert has already assisted in building three silos and at least one 
concrete barn and dairy house in Pearl River County, where the 
McNeill Experiment Station is located. The importance of such 
assistance cannot be too strongly emphasized, for it helps the line 
of work which, we think, above all others, has the greatest possibili- 



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ties here, and eiialiles those who go into it to get the most up-to-date 
buildings, etc., with no cost to them for expert advice nor for skilled 
labor. This e.xpert has not only furnished plans and specifications 
for barns, silos, and milk liouses, but has come on the ground after 
the materials have been got together and done the skilled labor 
necessary in erecting them. 



With soils capable of the highest degree of improvement, a cli- 
mate as nearly ideal as one will find in the United States, and all 
the influences enumerated to aid the farmers who live here, there 
would seem ample room for the assertion that the agricultural out- 
look for South Mississippi is very bright. 



The Churches of Hattiesburg 

r.\ Riv. .\. F. W'atkixs. Pastor First .Methodist Church 



It is natural that prospective settlers in a new country should be 
interested in the matter of the church advantages and the general 
religions influences of the communities in which they think of settling, 
and it is well that the sections in which they are invited tn make 
their homes should set forth the moral and religious advantages 
which these sections enjoy. The lack of churches and school houses, 
in the eyes of right thinking n..a. goes far toward counterbalancing 
the attractions of a fertile soil and a salubrious climate ; and a \m\ 
moral tone, with its inevitable spirit of lawlessness, is often the 
determining eleiuent in the decision of those who contemplate mov- 
ing from one section of our country to another. 

It is a pleasure to the citizens of Hattiesburg and h'orrest Countv 
to feel that they are able to offer to all who would settle in our 
midst, moral and religious advantages equal to those of the sections 
from which they come, and to assure them that, while in the more 
sparsely settled portions of the country the churches may not be 
found so close together, these churches are sufficient to meet the 
demands of the community about them, and tlieir influences are 
honored, their services attended, and their institutions supported as 
loyally as in any part of the Union. _, 

In the towns and villages all of the usual ecclesiastical bodies arc 
represented by organizations and buildings, while in the rural dis- 
tricts, every neighborhood can boast a Methodist or Baptist church, 
and often both, and, in a more limited measure, a Presbyterian 
church, and in these districts the preponderant element, both in num- 
bers and in influence, will be found affiliated with one or the other 



of these churches. It is said of the Baptist churches that they are 
so distributed that nowhere in the county is a home more than 
three or four nules from one of them. 

While it is true that in the country neighborhoods a larger pro- 
portion of the citizens are communicants of the churches than in 
the cities and towns, a survey of the religious advantages of Hat- 
tiesburg will show that in the matter of churches and the influences 
that make for Christian citizenship this section is probably as fortu- 
nate as in the matters of healthfulness. fertility of soil, cheapness 
of land, genialness of clime, and other attractions. 

W'ithin the corporate limits of the city, and the inuuediate 
vicinity, there are live Baptist churches and five Methodist churches, 
with a Baptist and Methodist membership of approximately two 
thousand each. There are four Presbyterian churches with an 
aggregate meiubership of about seven hundred, and one each of 
the Roman Catholic and Protestant Episcopal churches, both well 
organized and strongly supported, the former numbering about 
four hundred souls and the latter considerably less. In connection 
with the Roman Catholic church there is a parochial school of about 
one hundred pupils. There is one organization of the Disciples of 
Christ, and a fairly well equipped and active Salvation Army Post. 
Besides these there are scattered members of other religious bodies. 
A large proportion of our citizens are memliers of some branch of 
the Christian church. 

Religious services are held in almost all of these churches every 
Sunday, and these, with the various forms of religions activity. 



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are attended l>y large and devout congregations. The buildings in 
which these churches are housed are adequate to their needs, and 
some of them are handsome brick and stone structures that would 
do credit to larger and more pretentious cities. The resident pas- 
tors are men of experience, probity, zeal, and ability, and the rela- 
tions of good fellowship between the different denominational bodies 
are pronounced and cordial. 



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The people support their ministry with commendable liberality, 
and are fairl\- zealous in the various benevolent and humanitarian 
work of the church. 

Our friends from other parallels who come among us arc 
assured of a warm Christian welcome to our clmrches and our 
homes. 



Statement as to Title 

By LaiM.xr HKNiNCiTO.v, Eso., Hattiesburg. Miss. 



Messrs. E. .A.. Cummincs & Comp.\ny. 

Chicago, III. 
Gentlemen : 

I am engaged in preparing for you abstracts of title to the 
50,000 acres of The J. J. Newman Lumber Company lands which 
you are settling in Mississippi. 

As you know, the company has in its office here, in book form, 
complete abstracts of these titles, but for your use I am making a 
separate abstract for each 40-acre tract, so that, as you sell Ihe 



land, you may deliver to tlie purchaser an abstract of the title to 
his land. 

In this connection I desire to say that these titles are based on 
patents from the United States government to individuals, and the 
chain of title is^ short, showing a perfect record title, in fee simple, 
in The J. J. Newman Lumber Company. These lands are abso- 
lutely unencumbered. 

These are good features in connection with the sale of these 
lands, as the purchasers incur no risk on account of tlie titles. 

Yours very truly, 

Lamak Hknington. 



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Mississippi Rainfall and Temperature 

This is the official report of the United States weather bureau on the monthly rainfall and average 
temperature for each of the twelve months for live years in Mississippi. No other part of the United 
States can show such a uniform record and such a delightful climate in w hich to li\e and \\ here every 
day is a growing day, making possible three to five crops a year. 



- RAINFALL 

Months 1907 1908 

January 2.41 

February 4.72 

March 3.08 

April 6.36 

May 10.85 

June 2.41 

July 4.64 

August 3.63 

September 3.66 

October 2.16 

November 5.56 

December 4.64 

Average for the state 

of Mississippi 

annually 54.12 



1909 



1910 



1911 



1907 



AVERAGE TEMPERATURE 

1908 1909 1910 1911 



4.75 
7.95 
4.67 
5.28 
6.38 
4.89 
5.42 
5.84 
2.65 
0.35 
2.02 
4.5'6 



2.22 
7.13 
5.80 
6.85 
9.95 
6.53 
3.64 
2.90 
4.22 
1.32 
1.86 
5.55 



4.15 

5.15 
0.80 
3.92 
4.88 
6.53 
7.12 
3.13 
1.89 
3.80 
2.02 
3.73 



4.12 
3.69 
2.47 
9.61 
2.08 
4.48 
6.36 
6.38 
1.87 
2.01 
4.28 
12.17 



56.0 
50.6 
66.0 
59.6 
67.8 
76.5 
81.5 
81.7 
75.4 
64.6 
51.9 
47.9 



48.7 
47.3 
63.3 
68.6 
71.9 
78.4 
80.2 
80.0 
75.6 
60.8 
58.0 
50.9 



49.8 
51.2 
57.6 
64.2 
69.2 
78.6 
82.0 
82.0 
75.8 
65.0 
61.4 
41.9 



47.7 
45.8 
62.6 
62.9 
69.4 
76.0 
79.7 
80.9 
78.3 
66.5 
53.0 
45.6 



52.9 
56.4 
60.0 
65.2 
73.1 
81.4 
78.6 
79.7 
81.2 
68.3 
50.9 
49.8 



54.76 



57.97 



47.12 



59.52 



65.0 



65.1 



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of tZ7^\lT 4^ pr hts vary from year to year and depend in a measure upon the intelligent work 
of the farmer. The fo lowing statement of average cost and production per acre is given as furnishinsr 

as possfb?e '"' ' "''•'' "^ ^""^ ""'^'' ^"""'■'^^' "™P conditions and is as nearly accuratf 

Irish Potatoes: 

Seven bushels seed @^1.S0 310.50 

Cutting 70 



Cow Peas: 

Half bushel seed peas $ 1.00 



Dropping 1.40 

Plowing 7.0C 

Fertilizing 5.00 

Digging and marketing 10.00 



Cultivate, plant and gather 4.00 



Crop: 10 bushels peas @ 32.00 320.00 

One ton hay 20.00 



Crop 160 bushels ((v, 9Sc. 



3 34.60 
152.00 



3 5.00 



40.00 



Net per acre 3117.40 



Corn: 



Seed corn, 5 bushel 

Plowing 

Fertilizing and gathering. 



3 1.50 

6.00 

. 8.00 



40 bushels @ 90c. 
Net per acre 



3 15.50 
36.00 

3 20.50 



Net profit 3 35.00 

Cow peas may be planted in corn and allowed to 
mature after corn is cut. Can also mix sorghum in 
peas, making heavy hay crop and only extra cost being 
for seed. 

Cabbages: 

4,000 plants planted 315.00 

Fertilizing 5 00 

Cultivating lo.OO 

Gather and market 12.50 



Crop 3,500 heads @ 5c. 



3 42.50 
3175.00 



Net profit 3132.50 



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Watermelons: Oats: 

Produce and market 350.UU $ 50.00 Cost per acre $ 6.0U 

Plant in October, pasture in December, lanuar\, and 

Average returns 150.00 February and cut oats crop with at least 1^ bushels 

in Mav." 

Net profit $\mm 

Thompson Brothers, McCalluni, Mississippi, planted tKanuts: 

ten acres and netted ^100.00 an acre in 1912. Cost per acre $ 8.00 $ 8.00 

Crop: 60 bushels (« 75c 45.00 



Sugar Cane: Two tons hay 40.00 

Planting and cultivating }580.00 $ 80.00 



85.00 



Crop 400 gallons 200.00 Net $ 77.00 

Net 3120.00 Cucumbers: 

Planting good for three years and will cost twenty Cost per acre 5523.00 $ 23.00 

dollars an acre second and third years for cultivation. Crop average 150.00 



Broomcorn: Net 3127.00 

Plant and harvest 315.00 3 15.00 Snap Beans: 

Crop 700 pounds fe, 15c 105.00 Cost per acre 320.00 3 20.00 

Crop average 112.50 

Net 3 90.00 

Sweet Potatoes: 



Net 3 92.50 



-I Tomatoes: 

Cost per acre 310.00 3 10.00 Cost per acre 320.00 3 20.00 

200 bushels (g 35c 70.00 Crop average 200.00 

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Canteloupes: 

Cost per acre, grow and market 370.00 $ 70.00 

Crop average 300.00 

Net 3230.00 

Strawberries: 

Cost per acre, grow and market 370.00 3 70.00 

Crop average 300.00 

Net 3230.00 

Strawberry plants are plowed under in May after 
gathermg crop, reserving only enough vines to grow 
new plants to put out the latter part of October for the 
next year's crop. Ground can be used for sweet potatoes, 
June corn, snap beans or cow peas from Ma\' to middle of 
October. 

Satsuma Oranges: 

Set 134 trees to the acre and keep cultivating land 
to other crops. The average crop from ten to fifteen 
years old should be about as follows: 

Ten years 3 600 to the acre 

Twelve years 1,000 to the acre 

Fifteen years 1,300 to the acre 

Satsuma Oranges are expected to begin bearing the 
second year and increase each year. Three or four 
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Pecans: 

Are planted seventeen trees to the acre, '^'oung 
grafted trees in large quantities can be bought at frorn 
fifty cents to one dollar. An acre of trees ten to 
fifteen years old should average, under favorable con- 
ditions, as follows: 

Ten years old 3 300 to 3 500 an acre 

Twelve years old 600 to 750 an acre 

Fifteen years old 1,000 to 1,500 an acre 

The Pecan is a most attractive planting since it 
requires little care after planting and continues each 
year to increase the crop. They frequently bear some 
nuts four years after planting. Care should be taken 
in selecting trees of the right varieties to produce large 
crops every year. 

We have aimed in this statement to place the cost high 
and price and bulk of product at moderate average. For 
instance, sweet potatoes at 200 bushels and 35 cents. In 
July and August they have been selling at 31.25 a bushel 
and retailing at 31-60 in the South. Four hundred bushels 
is not extraordinary and five hundred bushels have been 
raised. The canning plants are now paving 35 cents a bushel. 

Irish potatoes are put at 160 bushels while 200 bushels 
to an acre is by no means an exrraordinar\- crop. The\- often 
sell at from 31.50 to 31-60 retail in the local market. 

Corn is put at an average of forty bushels and there are 
fields in 1912 that will produce over sixty bushels and the 
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Mississippi produced on one acre of cut-over pine land the of two pounds each from a tenth of an acre, using a home 

banner corn crop of the United States in 1911, over 227 canning plant that cost her ten dollars. She has the national 

bushels per acre, and first prize won by Bennie V. Benson tomato record, the highest preceding being 1,036 cans, 
of the Boys' Corn Club of Lincoln County. Grapes yield very heavily and they ripen from two weeks 

Also, in 1912 the State produced the banner tomato to a month ahead of other parts of the country, which 

crop of the United States, one woman canning 1,800 cans always spells good price. 




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Contents 



Introduction. 



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South Mississippi: 

Healthful Location. 
Productive Soil. . . . 

Market 

Price and Terms. . . 



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Letters from Governors 11 

General Information: 

Temperature and Rainfall 12 

Water Suppl\- 13 

Churches and Schools 13 

Kind of Soil IS 

Government Assistance 15 

Timher 17 

Home Building 17 

Removing Stumps 19 

Fertilization 23 



Crops Raised: 

Velvet Beans and Cow Peas 24 

Corn 25 

Oats 27 

Potatoes 28 

Watermelons. Cantaloupes and Peanuts 30 

Sugar Cane 30 

Tomatoes 32 

Cucumbers 33 

Onions and Cabbages 34 

Truck 36 



Good Stock Country: page 

Hogs 38 

Dairying 39 

Stock Breeding 41 

Poultry 44 

Bees . .' 45 

Home of Paper Shell Pecan: 

Orchards Valuable 47 

Estimated Production 48 

Good Demand 49 

Fruit Growing 50 

Advantages: 

Roads 52 

Canning Plant 52 

Schools 53 

Banks 54 

Work in Mills 56 

Mississippi Central Railroad 57 

Roses and Posies 59 

The J. J. Newman Lumber Co 61 

OUR OFFER 63 

CONCLUSION 64 

Appendix: 

United States Secretary of Agriculture 66 

Superintendent of Education 68 

Agricultural Expert 69 

Church Privileges 70 

Title.. 71 

Statistics of Rainfall and Temperature 72 

Crop Estimates 73 



JAN 27 1913 



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